How organizational theory can help network theorizing: Linking structure and dynamics via cross-level analogies

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 33-56

  Lizardo, Omar ^a   Pirkey, Melissa Fletcher ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Dyads; Network dynamics; Organizational theory; Organizations; Relationship formation; Tie decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901394193     PISSN: 0733558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0733-558X(2014)0000040002     Document Type: Article

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